“I think that is why he blacklisted me and did unfortunately, as we know now, such a successful job sabotaging my career because he continued to harass me between ’97 and ’99 and I have other examples and I haven’t gone into details because I don’t want to give it oxygen.”

Weinstein has denied the allegations and accusations from other women of non-consensual sex.

Responding to his denial, Judd said: “He also hasn’t denied that he harassed me and in fact he’s apologised for it.

“In my particular example, what he said – and this is a direct quote – he ‘didn’t lay a glove on me’, and he didn’t, because as you noticed I was able to flee the room.

“But he absolutely harassed me. He abused his power and he lorded it over me, this imbalance between us, with vitriol and abusive charm for two years.

“I would bump into him at the hotel, at different events and he was always ‘wink wink, I’m going to find that great part for you’ and at the premiere of Double Jeopardy in 1999 I had reached the ‘up’ with which I could no longer ‘put’.

“I will always remember this because Barbara Walters was to my right and I wondered if, on an unconscious level, having a powerful woman standing near me helped inflame my own audacious courage.

“Because I started to go at him and I was getting ready to call him out in front of whoever happened to hear, and he knew it and he said ‘You know I’m going to let you out of that little deal we made’ and I said ‘You do that, Harvey’.”

The full interview will air on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on January 15.